Sentences with phrase «of afro»

Studies of Afro - Americans in the United States have linked the experience of racism to a perceived lack of control and poorer mental health, and other studies have indicated that the perception of control may have a collective dimension in minority groups.

Suzanne LaFont, The Emergence of An Afro - Caribbean Legal Tradition: Gender Relations and Family Courts in Kingston, Jamaica 207 - 09 (1995); see also Nancy E. Dowd, Stigmatizing Single Parents, 18 Harv.

«[5] Mr. McSween is a 65 - year - old Canadian of Afro - Caribbean descent.

As of November 2006, seven per cent of profiles on the NDNAD were from Afro - Caribbean individuals, compared with the three per cent proportion of Afro - Caribbeans in the general population.

Grueso also focused on protecting Colombia's Pacific rainforest, a region facing the escalating threat of armed conflict, environmental ruin, and the mass displacement of Afro - Colombian villagers.

This history of selective assassinations of Afro - Colombian leaders on the coastal region of Nariño has been repeated 75 times since 1998, when Mr. Francisco Hurtado, the first president of an Afro - Colombian community council, was assassinated by paramilitaries while carrying out a census of his community on the Mira River.

In 1975, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta presented four subseries from The Bicentennial Series; the exhibition traveled to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY and the National Center of Afro - American Artists in Boston.

Filling in between the shows of New York black artists, such as Benny Andrews and Stephanie Weaver, and shows by artists from other countries, such as LeRoy Clark of Trinidad, Skunder Boghossian of Ethiopia and Philip Moore of Ghana, were exhibitions of Afro - American art from Washington, Chicago, Boston, Tennessee and California.

1970 Five Famous Black Artists: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, The Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists, Roxbury, MA

And so has the work of the Afro - Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, at least in «Untitled» of 1949.

The site the artist chose is significant with regard to his field research; different themes and areas of interest in Zink Yi's work intersect in the portrait of Havana: the utopian visions of social revolutionaries, the stark reality of socialism, the cults and rites of the Afro - Cuban population.

Tate Liverpool has initiated a city - wide programme of parallel exhibitions and events that explore the themes and ideas of Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic.

In Their Own Form brings together photographic and video works exploring a range of Afro - Diasporic experiences.

Black Mountain was accessible right from the start to female as well as male students and staff, and contrary to contemporary practices of racial discrimination also accepted a number of Afro - American students.

This exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Archivio Afro, presents around 50 artworks from the 1950s to the 1970s, and the final room is entirely dedicated to preparatory drawings of Afro's majestic mural fresco The Garden of Hope.

Awareness of Afro's art grew and continues to grow over time, thanks also to the revival of interest in the various historical contexts, more than half a century ago, in which he played a role, as an in Italian painter of international renown.

In an adjoining gallery, a series of Afro Paintings uses a limited color palette: the reds, blacks, and greens of the pan-African flag designed by Marcus Garvey.

Overstreet's work was also central in watershed museum exhibitions of African American artists in the period, including «Afro - American Artists: New York and Boston,» (1973) organized jointly by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the National Center of Afro American Artists; and «New Black Artists,» (1970) organized by the Brooklyn Museum.

The concept of the show grew out of a conversation Murillo had with a group of Afro - Colombian, amateur musicians who made their own instruments.

Tornabuoni Art Paris presents the most comprehensive international survey ever to be held in a private gallery of Afro Libio Basaldella (1912 - 1976), better known as Afro.

06, Issue 02, Summer 2007 Review by Anthea Buys, Mail & Guardian, 31 August 2007 Paranoia Comes Up Against Acclaim, Business Day, 1 June 2007 Fred de Vries, «Urban Guerilla Of Afro Pop Art» The Weekender, 3 February

Dr. Michael McMillan is a writer, dramatist, artist / curator and scholar of Vincentian migrant parentage whose recent play includes: a new translation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan (Trenchtown)(MAT tour 2010 & 2012) and curatorial work includes: My Hair: Black Hair Culture, Style & Politics (Origins of the Afro Comb, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology 2013), I Miss My Mum's Cooking (Who More Sci - Fi Than Us, KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, Netherlands 2012), The Waiting Room (Stories & Journeys, Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery, Bangor, North Wales 2012), The Beauty Shop (198 Contemporary Arts & Learning 2008), The West Indian Front Room (Geffrye Museum 2005 - 06), The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Black Dog Publishing 2009) www.thefrontroom.org.uk / He has an Arts Doctorate from Middlesex Univ. 2010 and is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies as well as Associate Researcher RAS project at London CSM / Wimbledon CSM, UAL.

Dr. Michael McMillan is a writer, dramatist, artist / curator and scholar of Vincentian migrant parentage whose recent play includes: a new translation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan (Trenchtown)(MAT tour 2010 & 2012) and curatorial work includes: My Hair: Black Hair Culture, Style & Politics (Origins of the Afro Comb, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology 2013), I Miss My Mum's Cooking (Who More Sci - Fi Than Us, KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, Netherlands 2012), The Waiting Room (Stories & Journeys, Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery, Bangor, North Wales 2012), The Beauty Shop (198 Contemporary Arts & Learning 2008), The West Indian Front Room (Geffrye Museum 2005 - 06), The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Black Dog Publishing 2009) www.thefrontroom.org.uk / He has an Arts Doctorate from Middlesex University 2010 and is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies as well as Associate Researcher RAS project at London CSM / Wimbledon CSM, UAL.

We went on to become great friends and he inadvertently became a patron by employing me as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Afro - American Studies at Harvard.

Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Diago: The Past of This Afro - Cuban Present at The Cooper Gallery presents Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy's first retrospective.

Diago: The Pasts of This Afro - Cuban Present, curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Director of the Afro - Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, is on view at The Cooper Gallery through May 5, 2017.

Mr. Anderson, a painter whose parents were Jamaican immigrants, explores the theme of identity and is known for his depictions of Afro - Caribbean barbershops.

His work is strongly evocative of Afro - Cuban religions as well as of the rituals of Native Americans, whose cultures he studies.

Dr. Michael McMillan is a writer, dramatist, artist / curator whose exhibitions include The West Indian Front Room (2005) and Origins of the Afro Comb (2013).

The narrative represents intensity and density of Afro - Cuba religions and, on one side, it seems as if it celebrates the openness of human mind, as well as the dark corners of imagination which can be a direct comment on the global political state of the time.

Yet, in Lam's hands, Cubism becomes soft and vaporous, and Surrealism finds itself under the spell of the Afro - Cuban Santería religion.

Weinberger, born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of an Afro - Carribean mother and a White American father, moved to the US and grew up at a time when legal interracial marriage, and the multiracial nuclear family, was still relatively novel (interracial marriage became legal in the United States in 1967, Weinberger was born in 1973).

He has held academic and other posts including Professor of Media Studies at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung Karlsruhe (2008 - 2014); Faculty Member, Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (1991 - present); Professor of English, Visiting Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh (2006 - 2007); Visiting lecturer at Schools of Afro - American Studies, Harvard (1998 - 2002) and; Research Fellow, Goldsmiths College, University of London (1998 - 2003)

Regents Professor at University of California Berkeley (April 2016) Trustee of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (2015 - present) Trustee of Parasol Unit, London, UK (2015 - present) Patron of Stuart Hall Foundation, London, UK (2014 - present) Chair, Professor of Global Art, University of the Arts, London, UK (2014 - present) Professor of Media Art at Staatliche Hoscschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany (2008 - present) Trustee of Art Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA (1999 - present) Faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program, New York, USA (2006 - 2013) Trustee of Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (1999 - 2009) Visiting Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2006 - 2007) Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College University of London, UK (1998 - 2003) Visiting lecturer at Harvard University's Schools of Afro - American and Visual Environmental Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA (1998 - 2002)

Nuyorican Visionary: Jorge Soto and the evolution of an Afro - Taino aesthetic at Taller Boricua?

Isaac Julien was visiting lecturer at Harvard University's Schools of Afro - American and Visual Environmental Studies between 1998 and 2002.

Pacita's paintings were featured in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong; Museum of Philippine Art and the Metropolitan Museum in Manila; Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, Bangkok, Thailand; Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke; National Center of Afro - American Artists, Boston; National Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Jakarta, Indonesia and the Hadeland Museum in Norway, among others.

2004 Is everybody comfortable, Market Photography Workshop exhibition, Fortoleza, Maputo, Mozambique — Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg, South Africa Urban Life: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, Market Photography Workshop exhibition, Jahnitos, Maputo, Mozambique — Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Min (e) dfields, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz / Basel, Switzerland Lo - mo - graphy, PhotoZA, Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa, The Museum of the National Centre of Afro - American Artists, Boston, USA — KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

106 works are showcased, amongst paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations that trace different profiles of the Afro - Brazilian artistic production from the 18th Century until today.

Himid's paintings, drawings, and installations make reference to the African diaspora and the slave industry, while Anderson's work explores ideas of identity, as inspired by his Jamaican immigrant parents, often in depictions of Afro - Caribbean barbershops.

Bearden also organized several important exhibitions including Contemporary Art of the American Negro in Harlem in 1966 at what is now the site of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 1967, with art historian Carroll Greene, he organized «The Evolution of Afro American Artists: 1800 — 1950» at City College in New York.

His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists, and numerous other public and private collections.

In conclusion, instead of creating autonomous art fairs of an Afro - centric format in a European art capital, I think African art promoters should rather be striving to get deserving contemporary African art works into already - established spaces such as Frieze.

The theme of afro - Brazilian identity permeates most of Arjan's work, and his latest solo exhibition, «Et cetera», is no exception to that.

With an array of programs, collaborations and special projects, the fair maintains its imprint as the leading platform within this growing global market of Afro - Diasporic art.

-- Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy, 1998 Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Diago: The Past of This Afro - Cuban Present at The Cooper Gallery presents Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy's first...

In 1975, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta presented four subseries from «The Bicentennial Series;» the exhibition traveled to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum in Ithaca, NY and the National Center of Afro - American Artists in Boston.

An afternoon of performances and discussion in celebration of the launch of Corps Medium, issue 7 of Afrikadaa, the bi-lingual online review of Afro design and contemporary arts.

Brazilian French photographer Carolina Arantes is the winner of the 2017 Firecracker Photographic Grant for her ongoing project First Generation, exploring the lives of Afro - French women living in the Il de France region surrounding Paris.

Ramsess is a member of the Afro - American Quilters of Los Angeles, a partner of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts.